CNN 2011-06-08

Today marks the first official visit and State Dinner for a European leader during my presidency¹.  It’s only fitting.  The transatlantic alliance is the cornerstone ,is the heart of our efforts to promote peace and prosperity around the world.  And Germany ,at the heart of Europe , is one of our strongest allies

Germany and the United States are partners, sharing responsibility for a peaceful and stable Afghanistan.We are pulling in the same direction, trying to keep Iran from following its course of developing a nuclear forces capability².In North Africa,we support the struggle for freedom.And in the Middle East,we support efforts to fill the peace process with new life.

Still zero percent contained as finally 2,500 firefighters here.Right now there is basically one road in and out of here as the authorities here try to encourage people to evacuate³. They will probably try to enforce that a little more come tomorrow.And what you see is these thick timbers on these mountains here, and they go for only about 10 miles away from Springerville, is the front of the fire. And anywhere there is not this thick timber, there's this kind of grass. Listen to this. I mean, this is just fuel ready to go. So they say when it gets to this, it will spread even faster.

I didn't know that he was going to fess up.So if he started to dig in again and started blaming me, saying this is Breitbart. He made this up. These photos are made up, I would have been there to grill⁴ him. But I ended up becoming，you know, just like everybody else, witness to something that felt tragic⁵ and sad at an unbelievable level. I am not the cruel person that the media and people, certain people on the left think that I am. And I guarantee you, that is a news worthy⁶ photo. I just don't think that , I don't want to be known as the person that released that photo.

1 presidency   

n.总统(校长，总经理)的职位(任期)

参考例句：

• Roosevelt was elected four times to the presidency of the United States.罗斯福连续当选四届美国总统。
• Two candidates are emerging as contestants for the presidency.两位候选人最终成为总统职位竞争者。

2 capability   

n.能力；才能；(pl)可发展的能力或特性等

参考例句：

• She has the capability to become a very fine actress.她有潜力成为杰出演员。
• Organizing a whole department is beyond his capability.组织整个部门是他能力以外的事。

3 evacuate   

v.遣送；搬空；抽出；排泄；大(小)便

参考例句：

• We must evacuate those soldiers at once!我们必须立即撤出这些士兵！
• They were planning to evacuate the seventy American officials still in the country.他们正计划转移仍滞留在该国的70名美国官员。

4 grill   

n.烤架，铁格子，烤肉；v.烧，烤，严加盘问

参考例句：

• Put it under the grill for a minute to brown the top.放在烤架下烤一分钟把上面烤成金黄色。
• I'll grill you some mutton.我来给你烤一些羊肉吃。

5 tragic   

adj.悲剧的，悲剧性的，悲惨的

参考例句：

• The effect of the pollution on the beaches is absolutely tragic.污染海滩后果可悲。
• Charles was a man doomed to tragic issues.查理是个注定不得善终的人。

6 worthy   

adj.(of)值得的，配得上的；有价值的

参考例句：

• I did not esteem him to be worthy of trust.我认为他不值得信赖。
• There occurred nothing that was worthy to be mentioned.没有值得一提的事发生。